Restaurant food cost software
Restaurant food cost
software for
independent kitchens.
Track every food cost. Protect every margin. Marji scans your supplier invoices, recosts every dish the moment a price changes, and tells you exactly which menu prices to raise or which suppliers to switch.
No credit card required · Full setup in under 30 minutes · or take the free QR menu instead
Proof
We're new. Judge us on what you can check.
No logos, no testimonials, no “trusted by 500 restaurants” — we'd have to make them up. Everything below is public, dated, and open in a new tab right now, before you give us an email address.
The Restaurant Food Cost Index
Ten commodities from federal price data, refreshed weekly. Free to cite, full history as CSV.
A dated public changelog
Every change we ship, in public, with the date on it. Last entry Aug 11, 2026.
A live status page
Real system health checks, not a badge. If something is down it says so before you email us.
Our editorial policy
Where our numbers come from, what we do with AI assistance, and what we refuse to publish.
16 free calculators
No signup, no email wall, shareable results. Plus 63 costing terms with the formulas in them.
21 menu designs
Every one rendered on a real menu page you can open — the same page our free QR tier serves diners.
The QR menu tier is free forever, so you can watch the product run on your own menu before deciding whether the margin engine is worth $59.
Product tour
See Marji work — in 53 seconds.
The real dashboard on our sample bistro: invoices reading themselves, dish margins repricing live, and the QR menu updating the moment a price is approved.
The problem
Restaurants lose 3 to 5 points of margin a year — usually without noticing.
Wholesale food costs change every week. Beef goes up forty cents, eggs up nine, butter up a dollar a pound. None of those changes triggers a menu update on its own. By the time the quarterly P&L lands, the burger that used to make $9 is making $7.10, and the brunch plate is barely breaking even.
The average independent restaurant gives back three to five points of margin a year this way — not because owners are careless, but because nobody has time to recost forty recipes every Tuesday. Marji does that work in the background, so you find out the same week the price moved, not the same quarter.
How it works
How Marji's food cost software works.
- 01
Upload supplier invoices and your menu
Photograph your menu, then snap or forward supplier invoices — Sysco, US Foods, Restaurant Depot, your local distributor, anyone. Marji reads every line item — no manual data entry.
- 02
We track every food cost change automatically
The moment butter goes up nine cents, every dish that uses butter is recosted. Recipe costing and dish-level margins update across your whole menu in real time.
- 03
Get clear menu pricing recommendations
Plain-language fixes: “Raise the burger to $16.75.” “Switch beef to Vendor B and save 12%.” You approve each one and apply it in your own POS — Marji works alongside any register, and needs a connection to none of them.
Step 02 is the part most tools make you build by hand. How the recipe costing works — including a plate costed line by line, with the yield math shown.
Dashboard
One dashboard. Every dish on your menu. Always current.
See real recipe costs, food cost percentages, and dish-level margins for your entire menu. The numbers update the moment a new supplier invoice comes in.
The same screens work on the phone in your apron pocket — which is where invoices actually get photographed. Nothing in this section is a design mockup: every image above is the app running on our sample restaurant's numbers.
Walk through the whole demo →Market watch
When your beef invoices jump 18%, you'll know which dishes it hit.
Marji watches costs from both directions: the wholesale staples every kitchen buys — beef, eggs, butter, chicken, coffee — from federal price data, and the prices on your own supplier invoices. Then it does the part cost reports skip: it crosses each move with your recipes and names the dishes whose margin is exposed.
- Commodity charts and outlooks, refreshed weekly
- Per-menu exposure — every affected dish, quantified in margin points
- Competitor Watch (Operator plan) — scan a rival's menu and see your price position dish by dish
Ground beef · invoices
+18% since Apr 2
Your exposed dishes
- Bolognese−6 pp
- Steak Frites−5 pp
- Classic Burger−4 pp
Pricing
Simple per-location pricing. Cancel anytime.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.
Single
$59
per location · billed monthly
For one restaurant, café, or bakery.
- ·Menu & invoice scanning (photo or PDF)
- ·Real-time margin alerts
- ·Menu pricing recommendations
- ·Free QR menu + printable PDF
Operator
$149
per location · billed monthly
For owners who want approved prices pushed to the register.
- ·Everything in Single
- ·Square price write-back (early access)
- ·Supplier price comparison
- ·Competitor Watch
- ·Priority support
Group
Custom
for five or more locations
For multi-unit operators and small restaurant groups.
- ·Group-wide cost dashboard
- ·Roles and permissions
- ·Dedicated onboarding manager
- ·API access
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
- Does Marji work with my POS system?
- Marji works alongside any POS, and requires a connection to none of them — it reads your menu from a photograph, so nothing depends on your register. You apply approved price changes in your POS yourself. Square write-back is built but not switched on yet; Toast is planned. Our [integrations page](/integrations) lists the real status of each one.
- How long does setup take?
- Most restaurants are live in under 30 minutes. You upload your menu, send a few recent supplier invoices, and Marji calculates the cost and margin of every dish.
- Can Marji read paper invoices?
- Yes. Photograph paper invoices with your phone — Marji reads photos and PDFs from any supplier the same way.
- Will food cost tracking actually save my restaurant money?
- Do the math on one dish: a plate leaking $2 against your target margin at 100 covers a week is $200 a week — more than three months of Marji. If it doesn't find anything worth fixing, cancel — no contract, and the trial needs no card.
- Who can see my recipes and supplier data?
- Only you. Marji never shares your recipes, costs, or supplier list with other restaurants or with your vendors.
- Which suppliers does Marji integrate with?
- Any supplier. Marji reads invoices from Sysco, US Foods, PFG, Restaurant Depot, Cheetah, and local distributors alike — photograph them or upload the PDF. Direct EDI feeds are on the roadmap.
Contact
Talk to a human. We answer fast.
No bots, no ticket forms. Email us directly — a real person on the Marji team writes back, usually the same hour.
Talk to sales
Direct line
Sales
sales@marji.coMulti-location operators, demo requests, custom integrations, group pricing — write directly. Replies within a few hours, Mon–Fri.
Sales
Multi-location pricing, group onboarding, integrations.
Replies within a few hours, Mon–Fri
Press & partnerships
Media, distributor partnerships, integrations.
Replies within 1–2 business days
Start tracking your food costs today.
14 days free. No credit card required. If Marji doesn't pay for itself in the first week, cancel — no contract, no calls.